Steam-boiler



(ModeL) V G. H. RHEUTAN.

STEAM BOILER.

No. 269,114. Pat nted Dec. 12, 1882,

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UNITED STATES PATENT, OFFICE.

V CARRIE H. RHEUTAN, OF HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT.

STEAM-BOILER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 269,114, dated December 12, 1882.

' Application filed June 6, 1882. (ModeL) To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, GARRIE HERRING RHEU- TAN, of the city and county of Hartford, of the State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Steam-Boilers; and I do hereby declare the same to be described in the following specification and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which- Figure l is a front end view, and Fig. 2 a vertical and longitudinal section, of aboiler provided with my invention, the nature of which is defined in the claims hereinafter presented. Fig. 3 is a horizontal section taken through the water-leg and front plate of, the boiler.

My invention relates to the boiler-shell and water-leg and to the front plate applied thereto.

In the drawings, A represents the o3 lindrical shell or body of the boiler, havingextended through it from end to end a stack of fluetubes, a, there being at the front end of the boiler-shell a smoke box or chamber, B. Extending from and below the shell of the boiler is the water-leg C, which constitutes the front of the fire-place, and has its front flush or in one vertical plane with the front end or head of the cylindrical body or shell of the boiler. A flange, D, in prolongation of the upper half of the shell, projects from the front-end of the boiler, and also from the vertical ends. I l of the-water-leg, to the front plate, E, which is provided with two horizontal flanges, b'c, arranged to extend from it rearward to the water-leg. The said plate, with its flanges b and 0, forms, with theflush fronts of the boiler-head and water-leg, the smoke box or chamber B and a threat, F, opening ont of which into the fire-place and, extending through the waterleg is the tubular mouth G of the fire-place. The said mouth G is provided with a door, d, and there is also in the front plate an opening, 6, into the smoke-box, which opening is direct ly in front of the stack of flue-tubes, and is furnished with adoor, f, to open upward. Tim ash-pit door g is in the lower portion of the front plate. The smoke-box, atits top, is provided with an educt, h, forthe discharge of the smoke from it.

In the'operation of the boiler, the smoke and volatile products of combustion escaping from the fire-place pass through a due, t, beneath the boiler to a flue, 7c,in rearof it, thence through the stack of tubes and into and through the smoke-box.

What I claim as my invention is as follows-- that is to say:

1. The tubular boiler having the front of its water-leg flush with the front head of the boilershell, and with such head provided with the arched flanges to project from the shell and the opposite ends of the said water-leg, as set forth.

2. The combination of the front plate, E, provided with the two flanges b 0, extending from it, as set forth, with the tubular boiler having the front end ot' its shell even .or flush with the front of the water-leg of such boiler, and also having the arched flange to project from such end and from the opposite vertical ends of the water-leg to the said flush plate, all being substantially as shown and specified. A

CARRIE HERRING RHEUTAN. Witnesses:

. R. H. EDDY,

E. B. PRATT. 

